From e69761483361f3df455bc493c99af0ef1744a14f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tao Chen <chentao.kernel@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 17:05:04 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] netlink: Fix potential skb memleak in netlink_ack
Fix coverity issue 'Resource leak'.
We should clean the skb resource if nlmsg_put/append failed.
Fixes: 738136a0e375 ("netlink: split up copies in the ack construction")
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chentao.kernel@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bff442d62c87de6299817fe1897cc5a5694ba9cc.1667638204.git.chentao.kernel@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index b10d5e50b99d8..9ebdf3262015c 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2500,7 +2500,7 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
skb = nlmsg_new(payload + tlvlen, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb)
- goto err_bad_put;
+ goto err_skb;
rep = nlmsg_put(skb, NETLINK_CB(in_skb).portid, nlh->nlmsg_seq,
NLMSG_ERROR, sizeof(*errmsg), flags);
@@ -2528,6 +2528,8 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
return;
err_bad_put:
+ nlmsg_free(skb);
+err_skb:
NETLINK_CB(in_skb).sk->sk_err = ENOBUFS;
sk_error_report(NETLINK_CB(in_skb).sk);
}
--
2.30.2